Sectional carline.



P. M. BEARD.

SECTiONAL CARUNE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 28.1914.

Patente. Dec. 1%, 1915.

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SECTIONAL CARLINE.

APPLICATIION FiLED lULY 28,1914.

Patented Dec. 14, 1915.

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SECTIONAL CABLINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 28, 1914. Serial No. 853,710.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, PAUL M. BnARp, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, and being a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sectional Carlines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and to use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the preferred form of the invention, though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact details of construction shown and described, as it is obvious that various modifications thereof will occur I, to persons skilled in the art.

In said drawings: Figure l is a side elevation of a commercial channel, which, when severed along the dot and dash lines will provide all the necessary parts'of the carline except the fastening means. Fig. 2 shows the channel severed into the component parts of the carline and punched for the reception of the fastening means. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the reinforcing members of the carline. Fig. t shows the component parts of the carline assembled. Fig. 5 is a plan View showing the carline installed in the roof of a car. Fig. 6 is a transve se section through the car roof shown Li a. 5, looking toward the continuous 11in; member that spans the side plates. Fig. 7: is another transverse section, viewing the' opposite side of the installed carline, and, Fig. 8 is a sectional view taken transversely of the carline on lines 8-8, of Figs. 5 and 6.

My invention appertains to carlines adapted to be employed in a car roof, and it has for an object the production, from a single standardized commercially rolled member, of all of the component parts of the carline, except the rivets, or other fastening means. Advantage is taken of the characteristics of any one of a number of rolled shapes to so out it up into parts that the latter may be assembled into the completed carline without further operations thereon other than the bending of the ends of one of the pieces' Another object is to so arrange the parts that the resulting carline will be self-stiffened, and adapted to support super-carlines or wood nailing strips to which the roof may be attached.

The peculiar shapes and assemblage of the parts give the advantage of allowing the carline to be attached to roof-supporting members without the aid of auxiliary connecting -means, such as connection angles, plates or gussets, and the construction as a whole is unusually simple and economical, its strength of a maximum and its adaptability of wide scope.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary commercially rolled channel, trimmed or cut away at B to remove the end portions of the top flange 8, said channel being shown in Fig. 1. Channel A is sheared along the dot and dash lines shown in Fig. 1, dividing it into parts illustrated in. Fig. 2, in which 1 represents the main continuous member and 2 the reinforcing members, adapted to sup port super-carlines. Paralleling the anticlinal edge of the web 3 of the continuous memberl is a row of rivet holes 4, and in the central and end portions of the horizontal flange 5 of said member 1 are other holes 6 and 7, respectively. Reinforcing members 2 each have a line of rivet holes 9, arranged in their flanges 8, said holes being spaced to match the spacing of holes 4: in the web of the continuous member 1. The web portions 12 of reinforcing members 2 are provided with holes 10, and in the unflanged ends 14 of said web portions are other holes 11, for purposes later disclosed.

In assembling the several parts of the carline, the web 3 of continuous member 1 and the flanges 8 of the reinforcing members 2 an appropriate distance beyond the outer ends of flanges 8 of reinforcing members 2, and the end 14: of web 12 of each member 2 is bent downwardly in a plane substantially coincident with the outer terminal of flange 8 of said member 2.

An installation of my improved carline in a car roof is illustrated in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive, in which the functions of all its parts are fully disclosed. In these figures, the main continuous member 1 is seen to extend over a side plate of the car with its ,horizontal flange 5 resting thereon, and it is ';bolt .16. Because of the manner of cutting the-channel A, the web 12 of each reinforcing member 2 becomes wider as it progresses j outwardly. Its downturned end 1 1- bears against one of side plates 15, having a sufiicient width for two or more horizontally disposed bolts 17 to pass through said end 14 and side plate 15, said bolts here being shown as also passing through the sheath ing 18 of the car. Thus, it is clear, the carline is securely attached to the car sides by bolts 16 and 17. Running longitudinally of the car-and transversely of and over the carline at its central portion, is a ridge pole 19, best discerned in Fig; 6. Drawing the ridge pole 19 against the topof the carline is a vertically disposed bolt 20, passin through said ridge pole and the'hole 6 in fange 5 of member 1. 0

Mounted upon the flange 12 of each reinforcing member 2 is a super-carline 21, held thereto by bolts 22 passing vertically from the channel.

therethrough and through holes 10 in the webs in saidfiange 12. i

The roofing is shown as comprising roof boards 23, which may be nailedor otherwise attached to the sub-carlines 21, though it is obvious, of course, that a metallic or other form of roofing may be substituted for roof boards 23. A running board saddle 24: may be mounted upon the roof in the usual manner to support a running board 25. I

Attention is expressly directed to the fact that my carline can be equally well constructed from other shapes than the channel A, it being apparent that standard Z- bars may be cut in like manner to said chan nel, and, by a slightly diiferent turning of the parts forming the reinforcing members in the assembling of the carline, produce an exact duplicate of the carline as constructed Where a heavier and stronger construction is desired, an I-beam may be treated in the manner hereinbeforev set forth, and the contin ous member 1 will have an increased stif ness due to the relatively wider, or practically double, horizontal flange corresponding to flange 5 in the channel construction. lso the reinforcing members, similar to members 2 of the type shown in the drawings, will have a double connection flange abutting. the vertical web of the continuous member, which web has the anticlinal top edge. At the side plates of the car, the continuous member, where an I-bealm is used, may have a double, instead of a single, connection to said side plates. In all of the forms shown or suggested said carline will be stiffened both-longitudinally and transversely, and there is practically an entire elimination of scrap, the carline being simple and inexpensive to manufacture.

The ends of the carlines manifestly may be bent in ways other than those illustrated to adapt it to various'shaped side plates, particularly where the framing of the car is of steel. It should also be noted that the upper side or top of the, carline need not be anticlinal, and in some cars said carline will be more suitable if its top and bottom are parallel, and the carline may be either straight or arched, as the exigencies of the design of the car demand. \Vhen used in cars having an inside lining, as refrigerator cars, sub-carlines may be substituted for or used with the super-carlines and be supported from the underside of web 12 of the reinforcing members 2, instead of resting upon the upper surfaces thereof.

What I claim is 1. A carline comprising a principal memher having a horizontal flange and an anticlinal shaped web portion integral therewith adapted to rest on the side plates of a railway car, in combination with reinforcing members having flanges of less length in the aggregate than the length of said prin-- cipal member, the flanges of said reinforce members paralleling the anticlinal edge of said principal member and said reinforce membershaving also web portions the end 100 portions of which are bent downwardly to parallel the inner faces of said sideplates.

2. A. carline comprising a principal member having a horizontal flange and an anticlinal shaped web portion integral there- 105 with adapted .to rest on the side plates of a railway car, in combination with reinforcing members having flanges of less length in I the aggregate than the length of said principal member, the flanges of said reinforce 110 members being riveted to the web of said I principal member and super-carlines secured to the webs of said reinforce members.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

PAUL M. BEARD.

lVitnesses OSCAR HOGHBERG, .RoDNnY BEDELL. 

